Voorhoeve 1 Side B

The cassette is a TDK D60. On the cassette is the first part of an interview with Clemens Lambertus Voorhoeve on 21-7-1987 in Leiden. He is better known as Bert Voorhoeve, a linguist and specialist in Papuan languages. He studied the Asmat dialect of Flamingo Bay from 1960 to 1962 and worked at that time also together with Adriaan Gerbrands and he recorded the sound for his movies from that period among which the famous documentary Matjemosh. Six tapes with his recordings are still kept in the Museum for Ethnology in Leiden, although filed under the name of Gerbrands. In 1965. After his promotion on the thesis “The Flamingo Bay dialect of the Asmat Language”, Martinus Nijhoff, Den Haag, 1965, he was employed as a researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra. He published a number of leading publications on Papua linguistics. Among others:  Languages of Irian Jaya, Australian National University, Canberra, 1975. The Asmat languages of Irian Jaya, Australian National University, Canberra, 1980, The Makian languages and their neighbours, National University, Canberra, 1982 and mention should also be made of Tales from a concave world: liber amicorum Bert Voorhoeve. Leiden University, 1995.  
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.

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